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  1. They're available but read the fine print... by jmichaelg · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Building a Dead Silent PC
    Yeah, you can get fanless PSUs but watch out. TKpower's only delivers about 80 Watts sans fan. Neither it, nor the RSG RCP 300W-series fanless psu, are recommended for P4s. More here.

    Bottom line, no one that I am aware of has delivered a fanless psu that is recommended for the P4.

    Perhaps a psu engineer can comment on the following as I'm not sure I'm right. A psu running at 300W at 70% efficiency has to dump 30% of the 300W as heat. That's 90 watts that has to be gotten rid of - a lot to ask of a passively cooled psu. TKPower tries to do it by physically coupling their psu to the case.

  2. 40 dB is quiet but not ground-breaking nor silent by majid · · Score: 1 · on Building a Dead Silent PC

    PC Power & Cooling have an off the shelf P4 model called the Sleekline that is now running at 39-40dB with the new motherboard rev.

    The Compaq EVO D510 ultra-small desktop is rated at 19 dB. The mini-tower model with expansion capabilities is 22 dB.

    The Signum Data FutureClient does away with fans altogether and uses fluid cooling for the ultimat ein silence. Unfortunately, it isn't available in the US (yet).

    Apparently, interest for silent PCs is greater in Europe, probably because of more stringent workplace ergonomics laws in countries such as Sweden.

    A few other links for Silent PCs:

  3. More hardcore than hardcoreware by juventasone · · Score: 5, Informative · on Building a Dead Silent PC

    The guys at Silent PC Review would scoff at the "hardcoreness" of hardcoreware.net when it comes to silencing PCs. After being on their mailing list for a year, I can tell you that they're waaay ahead of these guys in every aspect of PC silencing, many of which I've implemented myself.

  4. Low cost alternative by the+grace+of+R'hllor · · Score: 1 · on Smaller Than The Mini PC, The P4/2400 Micro PC
    A better solution for those who just want something small and silent, to replace their aging home server (router/printserver/mailserver, etc) might be the VIA Epia.

    Using a C3 processor, it is not nearly as fast as a comparable clockspeed PIII, but it should be sufficient for most tasks. It is also available very cheaply (Dutch local is about $130 for the 800MHz version), and can by quite well casemodded.

    FYI, the mainboard measures 17x17cm (6.8" square), has one PCI slot, and has pretty much everything on board. It's fairly silent, since it only uses a smallish fan on the 800MHz CPU, and passive cooling for the 533MHz one.

    Cases can be cheaply had. Even Ikea has a perfectly suitable case available. Silent, small, cheap, and somewhat expandable.

  5. Undervolting / Underclocking site by Guppy · · Score: 2 · on P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz

    There's an article on SilentPC Review where they reduce a 1 GHz Athlon at 1.79V to 600 MHz at 1.17V, dropping the power consumption from 49to 13.8 watts. Link..

    They also have plenty of information about quite power supplies, hard drives, heatsinks, etc.

  6. Undervolting / Underclocking site by Guppy · · Score: 2 · on P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz

    There's an article on SilentPC Review where they reduce a 1 GHz Athlon at 1.79V to 600 MHz at 1.17V, dropping the power consumption from 49to 13.8 watts. Link..

    They also have plenty of information about quite power supplies, hard drives, heatsinks, etc.

  7. Yep -- read about it here by klieber · · Score: 2 · on Notebook Cooling Strategies

    Yep -- you can read about it here.

    (shamelessly plugging my own site...so sue me)

    --kurt

  8. Re:Still Need to Solve Hard Drive Noise by klieber · · Score: 2 · on Notebook Cooling Strategies

    Here's a great solution. Basically, take two sheets of 3/8" aluminum and make a hard drive sandwich. Pack some stuffing around the side and you have an ultra-low noise HD. The aluminum also acts as a heat sink, so you get the added benefit of better heat dissapation.

    (full disclosure: I run this site with a colleague of mine)

    --kurt